iotop

Category: Monitoring & Observability

iotop

Show per-process disk I/O usage

Lists processes sorted by their current disk read and write throughput, with cumulative totals. It needs root to see other users' processes and to read kernel I/O counters. Quit with q; the display refreshes every second by default.
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